Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-10-14
Dakota NEWS.

Sioux Falls prides herself on being q
sporting town.
-Bnrnsi6es sorghum mill is turning out
sweetness for all.
The school house at Forest City is be-
ing moved into town.
Sioux Falls has ten cent packagi
wagon on its streets.
The local carpenters at Bristol are
crowded with work.
Grand Forks fair closed with horse
race and wedding.
John B. Pinch did not draw a large a,1-
dicnce at Sioux Falls.
-Castlewood is again agitating the ques-
ton of incorporation.
There is talk of forming base ball
League in the territory.
The local option campaign in Hughes
county is getting interesting.
Wild geese have begun their south
ward flight from Sully county.
Cool displays of blooded stock were
found at most of the county fairs
Bismarck has got gymnasium, and
its citizens are all becoming athletes.
There is some talk of establishing a
Dakota paper at the national capital.
Bishop Marty will give Father Hare
an assistant for the Aberdeen parish.
Tho G. A. r. III Dakota has increased
400 members during the last five months.
A number of persons in Sphinx county
are going to Alabama, perhaps to remain.
continues. 1t is now about 900 feet deep.
The Vermillion university will have n
graduating class this year, Just COM
menced.
Rev. j. j. Hull, of Valley Springs,
has baptized. this summer. thirty-two
converts.
Burt Moody, son of Judge Moody of
the Black Hills, is attending college at
Boston, Mass.
The matter of the location of the
Aberdeen post office is still hanging fire at
Washington
Parties from Muscatine, Ia, are Offer
ing 40 cents per bushel for potatoes at
Worthwhile, Sphinx county.
THE Minneapolis journal insists that
the Manitoba railway company is discrim-
mating against Minneapolis.
The Gettysburg Herald celebrated the
completion of the railroad to the line of
Potter county by using red ink.
County Auditor Bingham, of Clark
county, has gone to England to transact
business and Will return in 1888.
James MCGOWAN, of Sully county, has
a fine field of twenty acres of corn that will
average fifty bushels 10 the acre.
j. I. B. Ady, of Clifton, Sully county,
was bound over to the district court to an
swer the charge of attempted rape.
The board of directors of the peniten-
tiary at Sioux Falls rejected all the bids
for furnishing coal, and will invite new
ones.
Hundreds of barrels of wine have
been made from native grapes in Hughes
county this year. The native grapes are
very fine.
One shot in the Iron Hill mine broke
down fifty tons of ore worth at low val
nation $4,000. 1t is the biggest mine in
the world.
Prof. Riley, who has charge of the In
dian school department, has recommended
an appropriation of $25, 900 for the Indian
school at Pierre.
The new grist mill at Frankfort will
commence grinding about December 1. 1t
will be roller mill of seventy five barrels
per day capacity.
1t is said that R. NJ. Volkmar, half
brother of A. II. Lewis, Of AIilbank, who
had been in his employ in the Milbank
post-o Office, betrayed him.
The largest church collection in Da-
kota SO far in aid of the work of the prohi-
bition alliance comes from the Prasby-
terian church at Sioux Falls.
The vice president Of the Wilmar and
Sioux Falls road says he don't know where
the road is going from Sioux Falls, and
don't believe any one else knows.
Rev William T. lwards, Of Fort Aber-
crombie, who had his church blown down
just after completion, now has another one
just finished, better editice than he built
the first time. He attended the recent Con-
gregatonal association at Fargo.
Another mountain Of tin ore has been
discovered six miles in northerly direc-
ton from Custer City, which is said to be
the most important, inasmuch as it is by
far the most extensive and massive body of
tin ore yet discovered in the Hills
The Dakota School of Mines COM
menced its fall term Oct. 4. The pros
poets are good. Talented scientists from
the east have been placed in charge Of the
departments. The new metallurgical lab
oratory is nearing completion and the re-
duction machinery will be set up within two
or three weeks.
Nellie King, the female detective, ar
rived at Aberdeen recently. She says she
is IN the employ Of K,ngsford Detective
association, of New York City, that she
came to SIP nix county for an $4,000 horse
which had been stolen. She told a re-
porter that she had the horse at Aberdeen.
Miss King looks about % years old, has
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